The system of developing and controlling Realtors nationally has always been broken, right from the git-go, decades upon decades ago. The system was built and has been supported upon a false premise.
It all started when the “sell, sell, sell” pure hard-sell sales types started up an organization designed to promote the same “sell, sell, sell’ cohesive mentality nationally. After all, no one would buy real estate unless someone else expounding the financial benefits accruing to buyers sold the idea. Thus the physical manifestation of the programmed inflationary driven vision took hold of the consumer…for a commission of course. That grew the seeds of what has grown out of control today, the expectation of never-ending cyclical real estate price increases to be milked by wannabe (but amateur nevertheless) speculators, versus the deep-rooted former foresight of down-to-earth buyers of homes who planned to live in those homes.
Bureaucrats within the established CREA ‘know-it- all’ culture have likely never enjoyed boots-on-the-ground ‘real’ estate experience, but were/are theoretical types who study charts and graphs and extrapolate figures and trends from the past into the future, something like insurance company actuaries.
The system is broken, and it is being maintained in its broken state at a greater and greater cost to its taxpayers by “we know what is best for you all” misguided theoretical self-serving thinking patterns by CREA’s mandarins and their puppet ‘leaders’.
CREA now thinks that it has morphed into the United Nations of Realtors and consumers everywhere, in direct violation of its original mandate.
The only way to fix something broken is to dismantle it, throw away the bent/broken internals that will never be bent back into proper shape, install new internals that do what the new designers intend for them to do, and rename the Edsel something else, like the Canadian Operative Real Estate Association.
The fix is in; it always has been. It’s time to fix the fix.
Brian Martindale
Recently retired from organized real estate (by choice)
Lakefield, Ont.
